How to Use kudos in a Sentence

kudos

noun
  • Kudos to everyone who helped.
  • The company has earned kudos for responding so quickly to customers' concerns.
  • Frazier got some kudos of her own in the wake of her team’s success.
    — Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2021
  • Extra kudos for the teal bandana-print shirt and cuffed jeans.
    — James Thorne, Esquire, 2 Sep. 2014
  • Herta claimed to have no idea who pulled of the prank but gave kudos to the person who did.
    — Gabby Hajduk, The Indianapolis Star, 27 May 2022
  • So let the morning kudos give you momentum for the rest of the day!
    — Liz Plosser, Good Housekeeping, 13 Aug. 2021
  • And preemptive kudos for the next time — because there will be a next time.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Well, kudos to you for asking, but talk about an uphill battle.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2021
  • But kudos on your edge-of-space adventure just the same, Bill.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Bahler said that the farm has received many kudos about the sunflowers.
    — Steve Smith, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2022
  • So, kudos to the athletes who gave a voice — and a face — to the issue of mental health this year.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021
  • And then there are those lucky enough to earn multiple kudos for different projects — in the same year.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 6 June 2022
  • And kudos to Quinn for dialing up a blitz at the perfect moment.
    — Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The front-of-the-house crew stayed on top of the morning rush and kudos to the kitchen for getting orders out quickly.
    — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The Reid way was not to worry about winning over affection and niceties and kudos.
    — Faiz Shakir, The New Republic, 29 Dec. 2021
  • And not as kudos for helping finally pull off the Tokyo Games.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Ford isn’t the only automaker getting kudos for helping out in the storm.
    — Paul A. Eisenstein, NBC News, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Honorary degrees, awards and other kudos flowed to the Muries in their twilight years.
    — Star Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020
  • So kudos to the community theater for daring to head to that famous ball and take on this beast of a show.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Apr. 2021
  • For his part, Axelrod, who was never known to hide his opinions, was less concerned about the kudos.
    — Randall Roberts, latimes.com, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Some of the kudos for this can be set firmly at the door of Amazon itself, which launched a momentum bonus for the event.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes, 12 June 2021
  • Still, kudos to the show for invoking Gary Cole's most pop culture-friendly role.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • So kudos to the fine folks who put on the 2022 season’s first soirees, and thanks as always for the open door and welcome hearts.
    — The Masked Observer, al, 9 Feb. 2022
  • This list of books would probably take me a year to read, so kudos to Eduardo who clearly doesn’t mind the dense and erudite.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
  • There’s always PhotoPass (kudos to the newish one with E-ticket prop) and eating.
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • And not just with the kudos from Kentucky or the blessing from Nike, Adidas’ most heated rival.
    — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2022
  • So kudos to the Page Society for attempting to pen a guidebook to the challenge, out this morning.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 11 July 2022
  • So kudos to Brandon Flowers for trying to find a novel way in with this 2008 number.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The tricky thing about building out the Ford Bronco is that—and kudos to Ford on this—there’s a lot of cool stuff to choose from, all of which really pulls the price of your truck up.
    — Car and Driver, 23 Oct. 2020

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